New Members Introduction

Hello Nicki fans! Its me, "Solium". Infamous Battlestar Galactica fan artist and moderator/admin for Galactica Actual. If any one visits GA, Skiffy or RA, little introduction is needed by me. I am a huge BSG fan and a fan of Nicki's excellent work in the series! I created this forum for the specific reason of promoting Nicki's character on BSG and her acting career.

Pass the corn muffins! :P

Glad to be here! I am a huge fan of Nicki's work and look forward to good times on the board. :D

While a more quiet fan, I do like Nicki C.'s work.

...and she's extremely cute. :)

Hi scoba and Arakim! Thank you for joining. :D I will do my best to promote this board. ;) Hopefully with the start of 2.5 there will be a lot more to chat about regarding Cally!

Hey, guys Husher here, big crush and fan of Cally! SOme of you miht know me already form Pegasus Galaxy or Galactica Station

Welcome Husher! Thanks for joining. :D I am honored your using a Solium original avatar! ;)

Hello. I am The Merovingian.

I am the one that began the "Longrunning "who is hotter, Six or Cally?" poll on the official messageboard in the first weeks of the series that's still going on today (Cally is winning by a wide margin)

I like Nicki Clyne as Cally because I am a disgruntled Star Trek fan who's been watching Star Trek since I was old enough to watch tv with "Best of Both Worlds, Parts I and II" in 1990. I watched everything, following through the glory days of Deep Space Nine, and grimly holding on during the Decline and Fall of Star Trek during Voyager and Enterprise.

Through this, I saw Star Trek ruined by the inept leadership of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and their policy of using Space Babes in Skin Tigh Cat Suits [TM]

Seven of Nine really killed Star Trek; what was once a show with ARTISTIC MERIT became just another boobfest like Charmed, Andromeda, etc.


When BSG began, I became a great convert and subsequent preacher of Ron D. Moore's new "Naturalistic Science Fiction" approach to scifi, which has re-invented the genre and fixed all the problems.

I soon became one of the first to develop into a "written thesis" as it were, the way Nicki Clyne's Cally has changed Science fiction as the "Anti-Seven of Nine"; a normal looking person who has actualy character development, a fully rounded backstory, etc. instead of just staring lustily at the camera like an Orion Slave girl.

I've writen it out a few times, but he's an example of one of my declarations of war, as it were; a short thesis/long letter on how Cally is incredibly popular with the fans, because this is our backlash against having Space Babes like Seven of Nine and T'Pol thrown at us rather than real characters In much the same way that Battlestar Galactica's popularity is a fan backlash against the horrible writing on Voyager and Enterprise for the past seven years:

(Consequently, I hope that my many polemic speaches supporting the "new movement" in Scifi females brought in by Nicki Clyne's Cally have steered the movment from being just "hay, Cally's a cutie" (not that she isn't), into an actual philosophy of sorts [well, a philosophy of "we're sick and tired of Seven of Nine, give us Cally!"):

And so forth.

Well I actually have a couple of these things floating around the official site, but I've been spreading the word that Fans who actually like TV shows instead of just glorified softcore porn hated Seven of Nine/Lara Croft type female "characters" and Cally has addressed our frustration

Welcome Mer! :D Your "Who's hotter Six or Cally?" is one of the classic long running threads on Skiffy. Congrats! Of course I agree with the voting score. :P

If I remember right, the call sign vote was very close between two favorites. Gizmo and Nibbler. (If memory serves) It was a valid pole for the time.

Your take on Cally's popularity is well documented and thought out. I am sure there is truth in what you write, but isn't it really the whole philosophy of BSG? It's not your generic Sci Fi show.

You just gave me an idea for a new thread!

Well, yes, but that's actually what I mean: "Wow, Battlestar Galactica is re-inventing the Scifi genre, fixing LITERALLY everything the recent Star Treks got wrong, *case in point*,, we have Cally instead of Seven of Nine"

BTW, you may notice that I knock on Seven of Nine a lot more than T'Pol. T'Pol was also a bad situation. However, A) T'Pol was Berman and Braga trying to repeat what they did with Seven of Nine; 7 STARTED the problem., B ) Even Jolene Blalock, who PLAYED T'Pol, was practically SCREAMING in interviews about how much her character was being ruined and she hated what B&B were FORCING her to do.

Basically, they wanted T'Pol to be this "bombshell" but at the same time, BY DEFINITION, Vulcans aren't, well, Orion Slave girls. But they wanted her to look "hot" so they tried to make her look un-Vulcan; if you actually notice/care about such things, Vulcans have slanty eyebrows, right? It's one of the defining things about their "look". But Berman and Braga said that this would make her look too "alien" and not "hot" enough so for NO EXPLAINED REASON, she has human eyebrows---->this is all important, because at the start of Season 3, as an act of defiance Jolene Blalock and her makeup artist gave T'Pol slanty Vulcan-eybrows....WITHOUT telling Berman and Braga, who actually only noticed after several episodes of the new look had already aired. They were angry, but couldn't change it back at that point. But this is just one SMALL example of the many problems they had.

Actually, the biggest one was the "Vulcan NeuroPressure Massages" introduced in Season 3 (the show had been failing in season 2, so Season 3 was the "year we save the ratings" when they were doing all sorts of things, the most prominent of which was making T'Pol get naked and have sex as much as possible). The results were mixed. The show only really got GOOD in season FOUR....when Berman and Braga had been fired in all but name.

Anyway, they made her start giving "Vulcan Neurpressure Massages" to Commander Tucker for no reason. It was really this sophmoric, 13-year old sexuality attempt to get higher ratings by making the two of them get naked an massage each other....with not real COHERENT EXPLANATION *WHY*!

****Mind you, this was while the "A plot" was centered on an Alien terrorist sneak attack on Earth that killled Seven Million people; the show was supposed to be really DARK that year, but inserting this ruined whatever they were trying to do.

Then T'Pol RANDOMLY decided to get naked and have sex with Tucker in what seemed like an entirely ARBITRARY move (mind you, we see her naked from behind...and it's a body double....and this episode aired NINE DAYS after the Janet Jackson Superbowl Halftime fiasco, right when the FCC started clampin down on stuff (the episode was already scheduled to air, you see, so they couldn't control the content as it was already finished, etc. but they got into a lot of trouble as a result)

Anyway, the "explanation" they made (not for why they were having the actual massages, as stated above, but why T'pol would RANDOMLY want to have sex with Tucker, was that she was basically shooting herself up with a mineral which acted as an physical DRUG to Vulcans, messing with her emotions.

--->Televisionwithoutpity.com quite ably expressed fan frustration (read: outrage at the stupidity) at this, labeling what T'Pol had become thanks to Berman and Braga a CRACK WHORE (their phrase; spelled in all-caps like that) and every time they did a review they refered to her as this in every scene because it's really how she was acting.

----->But I don't complain about this as much because Jolene Blalock was really agreeing with all the fans were saying in interviews; she thought the massages and sex were character assassination and totally disrespecting her as an actress (remember when Star Trek used to win awards for writing? It was a distant memory by this point). So I don't complain as much because she was begging for it to stop--->and when B&B got their claws off of her, NEW writers more or less actually managed to salvage the whole relationship thing AND T'Pol by making it a meaningful CHARACTERIZATION thing instead of just silliness.

But the Vulcan Massages and CRACK WHORE period (2003-2004) was when the WORST that Berman and Braga were capable of became apparent. I mean, LITERALLY, the complaints in season 1 and 2 were "T'Pol is treated like a sexual object too much in sophmoric episodes like season 2's "A Night in Sick Bay", please stop doing this"---->and their response was to do it on a higher level than they had ever done before.

And they kept trying to claim that it wasn't "sophmoric"; it didn't handle sex maturely like BSG, or NYPD Blue, or something; it was like a 13 year old's boob girl fantasy. I mean for Gods Sakes, in the first episode when they had "Vulcan Neuropressure Massages", T'Pol asks Tucker to massage her (the massages are two-way, etc), and anyway, she takes her shirt off so she's topless and cups her breasts in her hands while he massages her back (why not just lay down?), then T'Pol looks startled, shudders, sighs, and explains that Tucker is new at this and doesn't know exactly what he's doing, because he "accidently touched the correct pressure points along her back to give her an orgasm"---->I'M NOT BEING SARCASTIC. THIS IS SERIOUSLY WHAT THEY REALLY DID. And this was the first episode of season 3; at the end, I turned off the tv and wept and the impending cancelation of Star Trek. I saw it right there.

Still, I don't blame Jolene Blalock for this because literally every point I made above, she'd go on interviews and say "why the hell are they doing this to me making me get naked and give massages it's destroying what little integrity you gave my character in the first place", etc. So she agrees with us so I have no jauns with her.

At any rate, imagine being insulted by this kind of Seven of Nine (and T'Pol) stuff since 1997 (when 7 of 9 was introduced...not for artistic reasons but blatantly because the ratings were down and they needed a new audience), and then suddenly Battlestar Galactica comes around after suffering through all of this, and Katee, Kandyse, Mary, Grace, and Nicki are just wearing flight suits and acting like NORMAL people! Nicki most of all! She's the complete opposite of that Lara Croft-uber-confident ice-cold ass-kicking space babe stereotype! She's the regular, realistic person who in the face of danger proclaims "What do you WANT from me?! I joined up to pay for dental school!", has her superior thrown in the brig by his robot girlfriend, has several of her co-workers die, is constantly forced to teleport from one region of space to the next when this makes her sick and was never a 'required' part of serving on this ship! Etc.


My only regret is that we have no pics of the handful of nice Nicki pics when she's dancing around with Aaron in "Colonial Day". Starbuck's in the way (frak); wonder what it was.

Anyway, this is part of the reason that we like Nicki as Cally.

Solium I happen to be a big fan of your Avatars and your sig banners!

hey guys just joined...anybody watch Firefly? if you did does anybody find parallels between cute mechanics.

But, how do you really feel? :)

I agree that making 7 of 9 run around in a cat suit was a blatantly open attempt at selling the actors... assets instead of her acting ability. The character concept behind 7 of 9, however, I appreciated. Besides, she was attractive, but for some reason just didn't hit me as being bombshell material.

But I did like her acting.

T'Pol was even worse in my opinion. I don't remember 7 running around getting naked and having sex, or being on drugs.

Nor do I remember her posing in Maxim.

It's sad that Star Trek went on longer than it should have without a break, and that the B&B crew wouldn't let the franchise rest like it so desperately needed to do. 10 years or so from now we may actually see good Star Trek again.

I do find it a little odd that you say RDM has redefined the genre with BSG, when the BSG mini had a fair amount of sex in it, and the series uses 6 as Cheesecake more than T'Pol or 7 combined. Grace Park is a looker, and we get to see her glowing spine too. The difference is they get better scripts between the Cheesecake.

Ron wanted more drama with BSG and he got it. He used the old ways of romantic / sexual and family tension to do it though.

Sex is not even a new Sci Fi trick. Farscape also used this kind of tension to great affect. That was a show that died out before its time.

In fact, now that I think about it, old Sci Fi used it as much as they could get away with. TOS Star Trek almost had the Babe of the week going for a while, with who would fall in love with Kirk next stories. Star Trek had the first Inter-Racial Kiss scene on television (at least in the states).

Old BSG had Starbuck trying to sleep with Athena and Cassiopeia at the same time (in different rooms, what a guy). Starbuck Crashes on a planet and finds the perfect 18-year-old blonde girl wearing feathers (my doubts that she was that young). This was a family show you know…

Star Wars and Princess Leah in the slave suit, the list goes on.

Obviously beautiful women in Sci-Fi is no big stretch, it's just having them in the main cast that is new.

For the record, both 6 and Sharon put T'pol and 7 to shame in the blatant sexuality department.

My favorite episode with 6 was when she was dressing more like Starbuck. I've never gone for the Feme Fatale look.

My point is I guess is that we have 6 instead of 7, not Cally instead of 7. RDM has made an excellent story, my favorite Sci Fi on TV. He's still using the old tools though.

Kaylee pretty much owns me. Serenity was my favorite movie last year.

You don't seem to be paying attention to the finer points here.

It's NOT a simple matter of "sex" or "no sex".

There's such as thing as "handling sex maturely"; yes, Number Six is this "sexy seductress" who has mental sex with Baltar a lot. But that's WHO she is, as a character, and in many ways, it defines her, etc. You know what I mean.

But really, this is NOTHING like Seven of Nine and T'Pol's SOPHMORIC portrayals of sexuality.

When was the last time a girl in a fetishied catsuit came on BSG? Never. (Number Six has quite a high-end fashion sense, but it's nothing you wouldn't walk down the street in real life in).


As for "likeing Seven of Nine's acting and the character concept", while I agree she acted well and the concept was good, Jeri Ryan's talent was WASTED and turned to FARCICAL areas.

How can you say such things when you and I both saw the amount of FOAM PADDING that went into her catsuit? I've seen Jeri Ryan wearing "norma" clothes in other TV shows (Boston Public, etc) and I can tell that the catsuit pads out her breasts to appear easily twice the size that they actually are.

If it was a good charater, why wasn't she wearing normal clothes? What if we had a naked woman walking around, all the time? She could act quite well, but you HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL OF CONVINCING SOMEONE THAT IT'S A CHARACTER WITH REAL MERITAND SAYING IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.

Grace Park got out of her flight suit and had sex in literally one episode. In all other episodes, she's wearing the same flight suit as the male pilots do; even later on, she's wearing prison clothes or that sweatsuit.

If you're a fan that thinks Grace Park is really hot from her Maxim shoot, real life appearances, fine....but this has nothing to do with the show itself. Many respectable shows (LW's, NYPD's, sort of,etc) have at one time or another had actresses that posed naked for magazines, etc. A few of the Star Treks or Bab5's even. But does this reflect on the CONTENT OF THE SHOW ITSELF?

I mean LOOK: Grace Park is attractive, but she's not OBVIOUSLY NOT slinking around half naked much of the time at all; you can't really use Grace Park to support your reasoning. What "record", she's not "blatantly sexual" if she's in a unisex uniform in almost every episode!

(come to think of it she has sex in the miniseries and a few early episodes, but it's not really a sex scene as we still see them in their normal clothes getting ready to have sex but not actually doin stuff, etc, etc).


As for Number Six being used purely for eye-candy; there is a DIFFERENCE between Number Six obviously manipulating Baltar USING her sexuality, and Seven of Nine running around acting like she's dead serious when really she's a farcical parody of what a woman is.


Much of the "sexualy mature themes" on shows like NYPD Blue that addressed it maturely, like BSG, were seen as high drama.

I hope you can come to this realization and stop using blanket terms.

Welcome Crazyazunboy! I think the comparison between Cally and Kaylee interesting. Both in their rolls and names. As cute as Kaylee is, Cally is by far my fav mechanic girl. ;)

Just a friendly reminder this is a Nicki Clyne appreciation forum so lets please stay on topic. The whole debate over Star Trek , Seven Of Nine, Typol, B&B etc. is well thought out and interesting but does not reflect the mission of the site.

Greetings,

Laurette's man here - I'm married but still like to see Nicki Clyne's career take off!

I saw a Genesis concert in 1975 and even though Peter Gabriel was the front man I took notice of the drummer because of his backing vocals and natural stage presence. That drummer - Phil Collins took over the lead vocals when Peter Gabriel left that same year and of course went on to have a phenomenal career!

Same with Tom Hanks back when he was on Bosom Buddies in the early 80's. Something just clicked - I thought this guy's going somewhere.

Now I see the same with Nicki. Her future looks bright. B)

After watching the mini and seeing bits of her in season 1, I wondered who is this female wrenching on the flight deck? I've never bothered to check up on somebody I noticed on TV on the internet before. I was curious. Now I find that there is a fan base for this rising star. Doesn't hurt to jump on the bandwagon to possibly perpetuate somebodies career.

I enjoy viewing all your artistic endeavors on these Cally related boards.

-Patrick S. O'Donnell

Did you make sure to save Nicki her own Login Name?

Laurette's man: Welcome! I agree with your anthology that Nicki is still by and large undiscovered talent. I think she can have tremendous success in media, be it television, movies, video, or pop culture. I really think she can connect with the young group as well as the Sci Fi group.

BlackBirdCD: Ya know that's a good question and something I over looked! Thanks! If Nicki shows an interest in posting information here, she will have her own forum as well.

Edit: Thanks for the tip BBCD. I pre-registered Nicki. This is a test and only a test. If there was a real Nicki sighting you would have been instructed of such. ;)

I would like to appologize for an earlier mistake; I previously accused crazyazunboy of not even watching BSG for saying that bot Cally and Firefly's Kaylee had been shot; I'm terribly sorry, I was up till like 4 am reading through podcast stuff when I was writing, and in my bleary state completely forgot that Cally had been shot in "Bastille Day" in the leg. Sorry about that one; fatigue frying my brain etc. I completely take all that back, I don't know how I slipped up on that one. Hope we can move on.

Nextly, no, Kaylee is far too cutesy (the dress/party thing, etc). Not that there's anything wrong with this and it's a cool, enjoyable character, it's just a little superhero-overthe topish. I mean Jayne Cobb is *excellent*, but sadly you don't normally see people like the Firefly crew, I mean they're larger than life, etc.

Hi guys, the forum is looking great. I'm still working on a new avatar and sig...but most of the pieces are on my other computer.

Thanks for the update Darth! Your contribution is most welcome! :D

Well now you'll have to let her know that she has a name reserved! :)

Sending out a letter this week! :) I have some "connections" so she might actually find out before she even gets my letter. :P

Awesome news. The whole crew at my house are all white knuckles, waiting for Friday!

Ok, I put the pieces together. I hope to make an enlarged version of the heart later today.

BlackBirdCD- I am so very excited about tomorrow nights premier of 2.5! :D

Darth- Ah, that is so cute! :P Doesn't Cally just go with every holiday?! ;)

Cally New Year, Callytine's Day, St.Cally's Day, Easter (we are going to hunt Easter Muffins, right?), Cally de Mayo, 4th of Cally, Callyween, Thanks Muffins, and Callymas. Did I miss any?
*flips thru the Callyander*

Cally De Mayo! LMAO! I have to start getting some appropriate smilies on here! ;)
Yes, its got to be Easter Corn Muffins. :D Think you have them all covered. :)

I'm Mustex (my real name's Kyle), and I love every single person on TNS. My eventual goal is to send them all fan mail.

I think Nicki's great because she took someone like Callie, who should be irrelevant to the story, and made her well loved. Her talent is undeniable. There's a reason why Moore changed his mind about killing her off in Bastille Day.

Unfortunately, I have to question how much longer she'll be around. It occurrs to me that Nicki could probably do a great death scene. Plus, Cally is so well loved that everyone who watches the show would feel the impact, but she isn't important enough to the story for her death to effect anything. Please don't kill me, but if I was Moore I'd have her in the cross-hairs by now.

Either way, I'm with you until the day Cally dies tragically. :P

Welcome Mustex! Now we only think positive thoughts here. :P They could have killed her off twice by now and she's still with us. I expect her to be around for some time. Unless RDM develops things where characters are replaced on a regular basis. ( Like Law and Order.) I rather celebrate Cally than worry about her future. ;)

Hello everybody.

I discovered Nicki in Battlestar Galactica one month ago and i found her very cute and with a pretty good job of acting. When i looked for his filmography i was surprised to see she made a lot of shows :D
I hope she'll have a more important character in BSG to see her more often ^^


Sorry for my english, i'm a french fan so i read a lot but i dont often talk.

September 9 - Callyfornia statehood day

How could we forget being the prankster she is...

First day of fourth month - Cally fools

Welcome Laulibrius! I love your banner! Lots of nice hobbies there. :)

Hey SBR saying hello to all the fellow cally/nikki fans out there: :D

Welcome SBR! Nice to see our family of Nicki/Cally fans grow. :)

Howdy all, I am the one true CylonGod! And I am a Nicki Clyne fan! :lol:

Welcome CG! Wow, 20 registered members in 6 days! Who would have thunk it? :D

may the board grow and grow from here on in.